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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Lurid \Lu"rid\, a. [L. luridus.]
1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
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Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
--Thomson.
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Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke
On the misty river tide. --Tennyson.
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2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame
seen through smoke.
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3. (Zool.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
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4. Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic;
as, the lurid details of a murder.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lurid
adj 1: horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a
lurid life"
2: glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid
details of the accident" [syn: {lurid}, {shocking}]
3: shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through
smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"
4: ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"
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